It will be interesting to see how Tesla does without the electric vehicle tax subsidy. It may go the way of the PT Cruiser: everybody who wanted one eventually got one.
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The mainstream press isn't written by goth kids who went to say Bard College to major in creative writing or graphic design or philosophy it's written by some regular bitch who went to Syracuse or Duke or someplace on their parent's dime to major in "Communications" or "Journalism" and party it up every weekend
They don't hire "mainstream" anything for their exceptional talent particularly not mainstream media content-creators. If they were exceptional they'd be like that 80 y/o Nobel Prize laureate author from Australia who's been writing novels on a typewriter with one finger for
40 years and resoundly ignored until about three weeks ago when someone noticed "Hey, you know what? This stuff isn't bad!"
So are you saying that people that major in Communications or Journalism are are not liberal arts graduates, and have Batchelor of Science degrees?
Dan
How the f*ck should I know what they precisely call it nowadays, I didn't go to that type of school. They're big name-brand schools who give degrees in stuff, "science", "arts", whatever historical discipline they want to file underwater basket-weaving in this week.
The way they do things is not congruent with what I know of as a "liberal arts" program offered at some smaller private colleges or universities.
For example I had an actual science requirement to graduate I was _required_ to take classical physics and I also elected to take quantum physics as well. How many journalism graduates working in the mainstream press took college-level math physics
Nah. I've been in a number of happy relationships though and so far nobody has ever told me what I could or couldn't buy with my own money. As is a popular statement 'round here "it's my money"
By the time the Model 3 actually ramps up production (if it ever does) and you can buy one off a lot it will be just one of 50 competing models on the market at all different features and price points, I guess people think the other major automakers are just sitting around waiting on Tesla to sign their death warrant they definitely aren't.
Chevy has been "stealing" their marketshare for several years now with ~250k Volts shipped. Some people are OK with an "electric" car that is actually a gas/electric split personality (or even prefer it.) In 2014 I seemed to be the only Volt driver in the area, in 2018 I see at least two or three around each day. Feels a little bad, like we used to be cool and now nobody even waves. Oh well.
I heard secondhand from another driver here that they had so seen a Model 3 on the road, but so far I cannot confirm.
The Chevy Bolt is the kind of boring electric family car the missus lets you buy. The Model 3 is the kind she complains about like "You're going to spend $35,0000 on a spooooorts car?!"
I would ask her if she was Barack Obama. "Are you Barack Obama? Are you trying to enforce illegal firearms purchasing limitations on me? You are, aren't you. You're a government spy! You are a government spy and probable narcotics agent, as well. I knew it."
I wouldn't force sex on her, or anyone, but nobody tells me what to do unless they pay the bills.
destroyed Saudi Arabia and Texas and Norway. "
I think poor business practices are what killed Texas as far as oil goes. N orway has a portion of their oil nationalised and the proceeds are used for the public good, it keeps their taxes lower while affording them a good in frastructure and have plenty of socialistic programs, like medicine probabl y better than the UK.
Chavez did that in Venezuela. The country just doesn't have that much indus try so they had to use those profits for public works. That's why he told t he oil companies to go f*ck off and he would produce as much as he felt lik e. His other fatal sin as far as the US goes was to trade in currencies oth er than the petrobuck. He also had the sense to get his gold back from the US, and then later when Germany asked for theirs back it seems like it take s alot longer for it to get there than it did to get here.
There's the type of man who's afraid his wife or girlfriend will leave him because he buys something she doesn't approve of and the type of man who thinks if she did he should be glad to be rid of the weird psycho bitch, what a lunatic.
It's not fair to tar all yanks with the bitrex brush!
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I see a fair number of model S here; one almost killed me. I've ridden in one too. I think they are boring and ugly, and I don't get the idea of alternating crazy acceleration and panic braking all day.
They are not good in the mountains. Not enough range going uphill, rear-wheel drive, batteries bad in cold weather, not enough places to charge. Doesn't running the heater run down the battery? Or is there some waste heat available from somewhere?
Here's the Tesla charging station behind the Safeway in Truckee. It's rarely used in winter. When Safeway is busy, other people park in the slots.
(the red thing is my Audi.)
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It really doesn't pay to be an early adopter of the electric car (unless you're heavily into virtue-signalling and arse-licking in general). The biggest problem is the power source. A quantum leap in battery technology is required and whoever comes up with it will have more money coming his way than all the oil barons in Texas and Saudi Arabia put together.
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The only factor in spending money is who's it is? So if you bought the leg lamp from A Christmas Story and put it in the front window it would never get broken?
Rick C.
Yeah, it may be a month or two more before Tesla reaches their full product ion level on the model 3. Funny though, even at their shortfall production level they are shipping as many Model 3s as the next three electric vehicl es including the Prius Prime, the Chevy Volt and the Nissan Leaf. The only other non-Tesla vehicle that broke 1000 a month was the Bolt at 1125.
The Chevy electric cars aren't stealing *anyone's* market share. The Volt sales have been flat for a year and a half at least only once topping 2000 per month. The Bolt sales peaked at 3200 in December and have not broken 2
000 once this year. Last month they dropped to only 1125.
They had several at the Tesla dealer the other day when I visited. I recen tly received a notice I could order mine for delivery in 2 to 4 months. I guess they are getting them out the door a bit faster than you expected.
Rick C.
For a minute I thought you were channeling Jurb. I guess you can go off your meds once in a while too, eh?
Rick C.
Oh, are you taking money from the government then? We live in a society where we are told what to do by society as a whole, usually by means of laws. But then you seem to be big on flaunting the laws.
Rick C.
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